kalpol
@kalpol@lemmy.ca
- Comment on What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop? 2 days ago:
I think these are better specs than my E7440, which will play Minecraft
- Comment on What are some unique Games to host server's of? 4 days ago:
Not quite a server, but Total Annihilation. Awesome times. Not sure if supreme commander does it too.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 4 days ago:
I’m aware of these, but invariably when discussing with my intercompany peers it’s a hard no. When a company completely ditches MS it literally makes the news. The cost vs complexity formula must not make sense (also user retraining and interoperability problems are not solved here either).
I would love to break the stranglehold MS has on general corporate productivity computing but I also want to keep my job.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 4 days ago:
Linux is missing enterprise management tools. For all its horrible flaws, nothing like SCCM, In tune, group policy, and Active Directory (in the sense of managing group policy, not so much identity) exist for Linux. Fix that, even commercially, and you might see a real change.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 4 days ago:
It’s the one drive cramming that really gets me, well also changing the right click context menu to hide cut and paste, wtf.
But seriously, not letting you move the Onedrive pin down the hotlinks sidebar out of the way? Extremely annoying.
- Comment on Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results 5 days ago:
The auction part is the best though, because you can now have it done by AI…run by the ad company. So competing companies both buy the ad companies’ AI to battle to win the auction for the ad companies’ space. They’re dipping at both ends and in the middle, which is a nice place to be
- Comment on I paint houses 6 days ago:
The solution is right up there
- Comment on UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones 1 week ago:
Apple just has better image control
- Comment on Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM 1 week ago:
Ever seen a Chromebook? Almost no drive space, because Google.
- Comment on Fun/interesting things to self host? 2 weeks ago:
Searxng. Just use a private instance.
- Comment on It will be great, they said... 2 weeks ago:
Firewall with pfblocker and good feeds solves most of the problem. Spamassassin and URLBLs still work. It really isn’t hard, once you set it up the config never changes. The static IP is by far the worst part.
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 2 weeks ago:
And here I am resurrecting Dell laptops from 2010 with 1.5gb DDR RAM and Debian
- Comment on The Enshittification of Plex Is Kicking Off, Starting with Free Roku Users 3 weeks ago:
how, indeed
- Comment on YSK about SearXNG - an open metasearch engine 3 weeks ago:
Works fine for me as well. Using public instances can be hit or miss. I just installed it locally, which I get is not possible for many, but it does work. Try lesser known instances.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
The only real usability issue I’ve had is auto cataloging. It isnt right much of the time. But I don’t have any remote users that don’t have network access so that simplifies things a whole lot.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
Yeah hell to the naww. They’re also probably tracking all your viewing habits and monetizing that data, they’d be foolish not to with that kind of access.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
You are entirely entitled to do whatever you want, but for me I go into a towering rage when something I own is taken over for someone else’s ads.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
Locking horns with users
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
I never checked to see what was actually in the logs but when i was running Plex, it constantly tried to send a lot of log data to its masters. That alone was enough to budge me up and get Jellyfin. Jellyfin isn’t as polished but it works perfectly fine for me.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
Don’t know all the answers but the home screen has the “Recently Added” rows if you scroll down.
- Comment on She was a cultural pioneer 4 weeks ago:
This is not even the original Wednesday, boo
- Comment on An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026 4 weeks ago:
FX-8350 and 1070. But I got 32GB of DDR3…I think, I don’t even remember what I put in here in 2016
- Comment on Only a few years left 4 weeks ago:
Oh maybe I’m wrong. At any rate it beats colon cancer
- Comment on Only a few years left 4 weeks ago:
Its 40 now for colonoscopy. Incidences of colon cancer are trending younger and younger.
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 5 weeks ago:
Then I have to carry two devices. I just have a custom phone and a stock tablet, this works out ok. Except the stock tablet is a Samsung and the software is super annoying
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 5 weeks ago:
How about intune?
- Comment on The 'just one more service' pipeline has claimed another victim: my entire weekend. What was your gateway drug into self-hosting EVERYTHING? 5 weeks ago:
So you’ll do this add all the services thing, then transition to refining the quality. Hosting email, then working on spam prevention and webmail. Setting up Jellyfin, then getting live TV recording working. Increasing security on the above with fail2ban, VPN, VLANs, virtualization, let the currents of self hosting carry you where they may
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 5 weeks ago:
Btrfs makes it really easy to enlarge a partition. You don’t even have to reboot.
- Comment on xkcd #3163: Repair Video 1 month ago:
I was trying to fix an old Dell Digital Jukebox and was saved by a random internet comment with a link to the firmware files the commenter had dug up. There’s this concept called net utility - that dude definitely increased the net utility in the world, even if infitesimally
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats 1 month ago:
Joke’s on them, mine hasn’t been connected since about 2018. Works very well as just a thermostat